I know a nurse who moved here from England because he didn’t like working in their healthcare system. So, he votes for obama so he can have obamacare. He thinks health costs should be lowered.
These type people simply do not understand simple ‘rithmetic. I used to explain to customers who were trying to beat me down on the price. I would say “A well made widget costs $5 to make. It’s sold for $7. That $2 is what we call profit. So, if the cost to make it goes up but it’s still sold for the same price, the quality will go down and it will be an inferior widget. The other option is to either raise the price or close the business.”
It’s the same with healthcare. For costs to go down, quality will have to go down and wages for the healthcare workers, such as nurses, must go down. They don’t like it if you can get their attention long enough to explain it to them. Doctors, nurses, techs, venders, all will make less. And there will be lots of layoffs.
I can only guess that to be a democrat you have to have failed 7th grade math.
Your health care analogy is flawed. You left out the large number of people to whom you need to provide “free” widgets when they show up at your counter...thus increasing the cost of the widgets for the rest of your paying customers.
Of course, that will NEVER be addressed...I’m still pissed at Reagan for signing that law back in the 80’s. Of course, it wasn’t entirely his fault...the law indicated that you ostensibly had to provide a basic no-frills widget. But NO, you decided to provide those who show up for free widgets with equal (possibly superior) product.
Sorry....LOL! I know that you are well aware of that, and the end result is the same...I’m just pissed.
I tried explaining that to a republican co-worker who worships Obama. He don’t get it either. I told him something gotta give, you can’t have quality and lower costs at the same time.
Sad thing about Obamacare is that it costs more but will deliver much less. Health care workers will see themselves losing jobs and taking pay cuts. In the end they will be nothing more than glorified government workers providing services to people who despise them and feel entitled to their skill and labor.